gnramires

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by gnramires 16d ago
> to surmise that our universe is computable by a deterministic computer program Please an expert chime in to complement, but I believe simulation in quantum mechanics is a quite interesting and not so simple topic. I believe the more co
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by gnramires 1mo ago
> This is where things kind of fall apart. We all agree (hopefully) that humans are sentient. The question is, "what else is sentient". Are all animals sentient? If so that leaves a very, very wide range on what sentience is. I
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by gnramires 2mo ago
Thank you for your reply. I'm not sure I understand your objection perfectly. > it sets up a future conflict based upon the state that a human has It's not clear to me it does. > It's based on a number of presumptions t
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by gnramires 2mo ago
Going further, all of those are currently under the umbrella of metaphysics, which is again a kind of prejudiced-against (often taken as irrelevant, when it contains some of, and in fact many of, the most important things in life) field of
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by gnramires 2mo ago
> I don't mean the nature of consciousness or internal experience (which is unfalsifiable) The way I've been thinking about it is not that internal experience is unfalsifiable, along with the modern science connotation that eve
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by gnramires 2mo ago
I've written some C code recently, and it came to me perhaps the pointer syntax may not be ideal. I'm not sure what the ideal would be, but I think a different notation for usage and declaration could make it less confusion. In pa
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by gnramires 3mo ago
> Math is entirely subjective. "Proof" essentially means "Other educated practitioners have the same experience when trying to understand this." > The logical steps that proofs are built on all have that common fou
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by gnramires 4mo ago
Really cool, and although I am not quite up to date on biology research (relevant here), I believe there were exciting results showing mechanisms like electric fields acting as signals for cells to differentiate in some species, i.e. "
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by gnramires 7mo ago
It's not just about the base algorithm. It's also about the memory needed to run it, and the clockspeed. For example, even the hardest problem you can imagine, if it has a verifier algorithm that fits in 4k (which means the soluti
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by gnramires 7mo ago
I like the idea of some kind of algorithm minimalism, or at least parsimony; but I also think sometimes it might be appropriate? In this case, another approach would simply be randomization, which doesn't favor any name (Aaaaaron Aaaaa
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by gnramires 8mo ago
This is extremely far from any of my expertises, but I'll offer an answer while no one else did (please correct me!). Basically, all medicine (i.e. drugs) we have are proteins or certain compounds that fit within some of our cell'
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by gnramires 8mo ago
This is not a super well thought out position, but I've been leaning towards really disliking AI art in general (without having an opinion on any strong policy action yet). First, art is, I think, one of the most enjoyable activities w
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by gnramires 11mo ago
Disclaimer: I really like Open source. I think without open source something similar might have happened to a lot of software, but instead of becoming Open, they'd become gratis (free/zero cost), or almost so. The heart of the mat
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by gnramires 1y ago
Something I think is worth pointing out: this is happening in the Netherlands, i.e. their jurisdiction. I think most people here aren't from the Netherlands. I think they should be free to try out the legislation they want, and people
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by gnramires 1y ago
I think another model could help here. Like an automatic/anonymous micropayment when you access a website. This could be a fraction of your internet subscription reserved for micropayments. It should be possible, and cryptocurrencies a
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by gnramires 1y ago
"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’
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by gnramires 1y ago
You might enjoy some of my writings on formalizing meaning (see here[1] and follow the links). In some way, although not always reliable, you can say that if you feel A is more meaningful than B, that is already some kind of evidence for th
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by gnramires 1y ago
If you have a very high enough refresh rate display, then yes: just flash alternatingly black-over-white and white-over-black text (i.e. invert it). We perceive essentially a low-pass filtered visual input (with limitations like neural firi
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by gnramires 1y ago
I am not a super experienced coder or anything. But I like thinking about it[1]. The way I've been thinking about it is about organization. Organize code like we should organize our house. If you have a collection of pens, I guess you
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by gnramires 1y ago
Also, more to the point of your observation: we should be indeed very careful about any extreme and any maximization, because I presume when we maximize a lot we tend to bump into limitations of the metric or theories employed. So we should
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by gnramires 1y ago
Good question, and I've spent a few years investigating this sort of question :) It led me to investigate formalizing ethics and if that would be even possible (so we don't fall into traps like you've mentioned) I think I&#x2
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by gnramires 1y ago
That's a cute story, I certainly like its tone of mystery. However, the premise seems a bit wrong (or at least the narrator is wrong). If your brain actually degenerates from usage of the ring (and is no longer used in daily life, acti
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by gnramires 1y ago
Personally, I give to projects I use (and ones that need most help), and I'm happy that say my younger self or people with no conditions can still use it without paying. I think there should probably be better coordinated efforts in th
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by gnramires 1y ago
Yea, I am indeed quite deficient in HTML knowledge and webpages in general. I'll look into PHP, thanks. Overall I have standards (that might be unachievable?) that I think tools should aim to be extremely simple if at all possible (at
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by gnramires 1y ago
I confess I have failed multiple times to build simple web pages (like a blog and homepage, admittedly after not too much effort), while I've made multiple fairly complex javascript animations using canvas and p5.js library. And I&#x27
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by gnramires 1y ago
I don't know, I can't really justify spending say 8 hours sitting -- and much less more time. We need to go for a walk, drink water, stop staring at a screen to stay reasonably healthy. Maybe there could be an hour bank or somethi
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by gnramires 1y ago
Reflecting a bit, I really see not plausible justification why say one account should be let to be logged in for more than 3 hours/day (say specially during workweek). Even if you really have no job, at that point I don't think it
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by gnramires 1y ago
> Every sentence ever spoken and every view ever looked at is also a number. It's not a freaky thing about "things like" busy beaver, it's a freaky thing about the concept of information. I'd say that's a bi
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by gnramires 1y ago
That definitely seems like it could be universal :) Yes, and I think the question of stability is very interesting, specially as those are continuous systems with non-local effects. To prove universality, you're probably going to need
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by gnramires 1y ago
It's an interesting idea, I've never tried it. It could also be a simple VM running a given OS (with reduced need for hardware support), or an application running interpreted code with the environment UI. Generally the idea is to

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